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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Time for Canada/provinces to make this possible here too. We should be allowed to have nice things that lower bills and emissions!

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 08/08/2026

The guy who wrote ‘Fire Weather’ - still the best and most gripping first twenty non-fiction pages I’ve ever read- has an article in Time today on what is happening with the global scale of wildfires - from the Gironde, to outside of Athens, to Spokane. Make some time for this this weekend.

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Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Climate risks compound. Drought means a loss of reactors. Heat means a spike in electricity demand. These are the brittle fail points in our systems, but the real problem is that we're just beginning to discover how many there are.

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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is a super important petition regarding climate change, if you are Canadian and have 30 seconds to spare please sign and repost.

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mike abbott @mikeabbott.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

luckily Iran has always backed down from retaliating and we can rest assured that Gulf infrastructure will not be in danger and the world economy will not be crippled for the foreseeable future /s

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Dave O Mitchell @daveomitchell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“The reality of Palestine induces a special form of disavowal, because its implications threaten too much of what the West believes about itself. To truly accept what is happening in Palestine requires acknowledging that the international order is a fiction....”

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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just checking out this little summary of "the fastest energy transition in human history" and realizing that it's been a minute since I had to listen to Vaclav Smil confidently assure the world that all energy transitions are slow plodding affairs. theconversation.com/climate-acti...

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Climate action can feel slow – but the fastest energy leap in history has begun

Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is glacially slow – isn’t it? This pessimistic narrative doesn’t stack up against evidence of very rapid change in the real world.

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

Winners and Losers
The IEA overestimated gas growth in Asia and underestimated solar

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• Forecast 547 TWh
• Actual 17 TWh

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• Forecast 465 TWh
• Actual 1,333 TWh

Note: Shows expected growth in Asian power generation between 2018 and 2025, based on actual 2018 generation, actual 2025 generation, and the 2018 World Energy Outlook's Current Policies Scenario estimates for 2025. Actual 2025 generation figures are from Ember.
Source: International Energy Agency, Ember, Bloomberg Opinion calculations

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Seeing another round of hope vs. despair discourse play out in climate circles, so allow me to once again put a plug in for rage.

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Saskboy from Saskatchewan @saskboy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

While there is confirmed opportunity for Canada to add the cheapest forms of electricity to the grids, Carney & @saskndp.bsky.social doubles down on older, expensive technology that is planned to be eliminated in the coming decades elsewhere in the world. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli #skpoli

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Natural gas to play key role in strategy to double Canada’s electricity grid by 2050 | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his government's new national electricity strategy Thursday, saying his plan will double the the capacity of Canada electricity grid by 2050.

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David Sacerdote @davidsacerdote.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Just to remind folks of how things you might have discussed ad nauseum often barely break into public consciousness.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band Spinal Smack

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/04/2026

The new technology that is going to actually transform this century is being able to manufacture and deliver solid state batteries at scale. There are so many applications for this, all of which will replace fossil fuels at a scale not seen before and enable things we have not yet dreamed of.

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Elizabeth Fix @elizabethfix.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Where much of the world relies on people, favours, and knowing someone who knows someone, Finns rely on institutions. Things work. Public services work. Hospitals work….There’s an unspoken social contract that mostly holds. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Opinion: In Finland, the secret to finding happiness is to not try

When I visited the country during its dark and cold winter, I learned why its been the global leader in contentment for years

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"Hormuz does not yet signal the end of this hydrocarbon dollar complex, which has always been a combustible mix of power and volatility. But it does reveal the structural changes that would be needed for a hegemonic transition." Absolute banger from @mona-ali.bsky.social

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The Reckoning • EQUATOR

Hormuz and the end of American hegemony

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I realize this is confusing, but the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran isn’t a domestic political story.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump @katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Dave O Mitchell @daveomitchell.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

"Increasingly the US is not so much the gatekeeper of the world’s only energy system, but the paranoid guardian of an ailing oil order that is rapidly losing primacy. Clean energy alternatives are becoming more attractive, cheaper, and—most importantly—more reliable."

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War on Iran | Phenomenal World

The bombardment of Iran has caused an enormous commodity-supply shock, prompting an accelerated global rush to greener energy sources.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order. Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ Iran war will accelerate ongoing shift to solar+EVs+batteries. ie CN winner bsky.app/profile/70sb...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Listen to this. There is a MATERIALworld. $200 per barrel oil, where this is heading in months of Iran's chokehold wld be an inflationary shockwave that will cause societies to boil & politicians heads to roll. The weakest people will suffer the most. Again, just as after Ukraine. Thread below

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

So like is the NYT going to carry my water as long as I make a startup to nationalize the entire fossil industry to shut it down

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

26/ JP Morgan on how Operation Epic Fury would end: "Resource risk will begin to outweigh increasingly marginal military gains and the conclusion to the conflict will come down to the three M’s : Munitions, Markets and Midterms." Sorry...This ends when Iran decides it has achieved its objectives.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths (1) Gulf Kings (2) Financial meltdown (3) AI tech oligarchs (4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions Read our Polycrisis Dispatch: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 09/03/2026

The #Bettrification Curve is steepening. The global EV fleet has grown from ~100,000 vehicles in 2015 to 80 million in 2025. What looked like slow adoption a decade ago is now entering the exponential phase of the S-curve. The energy transition doesn’t move linearly — it tips. #EV -> #NEV

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Threading some stuff about oil & oil markets, just basic but hope it helps: 1/ oil markets are what you call “finely balanced”. Supply is usually very very close to demand/consumption. Demand is hard to shift *quickly* in response to supply hiccups. So even small supply changes = big price effects

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

END/ 2 wars in 4 years. This war will accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security "rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels & the whims of idiots" Be like Spain. bsky.app/profile/jere...

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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Smart countries will "accelerate their transition to renewable energy and energy efficiency options that are more stable and less vulnerable to geopolitical risk" and reduce carbon pollution. Energy security and climate action go hand in hand. www.theenergymix.com/widening-mid... #LNG #bcpoli

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Middle East War Spotlights Stability of Renewables and Efficiency

Iran attacked oil and gas facilities in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, oil and gas prices rose sharply, Donald Trump said the “hardest hits” were yet to come, and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith made her fore...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically,& we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim"

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

careful what you wish for. When King Croseus sought the delphic oracle's guidance about a possible war with Persia, she said that he would cause the fall of a great empire....

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 01/03/2026

Banger after banger from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-countr...

overall, a hard rule against starting wars produces a world preferable to a world in which that rule is not respected. It will always be tempting for a stronger nation to use war against a weaker nation that displeases it in some way. It will always be the case that a nation that starts a war believes that its reasons this time are sound. What we have learned, in the most destructive possible ways, is that we are all better off with a hard and fast rule against making exceptions to the rule.

Opening the door to things like “preemptive wars” to head off some form of (real or concocted) threat has the same effect as saying it is okay to shoot someone if they make you nervous. It causes a lot of people to get shot unnecessarily.

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Dave O Mitchell @daveomitchell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

'Non-hegemony', 'apolar', 'post-democratic' — a sign of the times, that privative formations best describe our upside-down world. Crucial analysis from @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/non... #polycrisis

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Non-Hegemony | Phenomenal World

The neoliberal world order is collapsing. In its wake, powerful states have abandoned multilaterialism in pursuit of national aims.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Don't look but after Solar boom, Batteries Hockey Stick of Hope is here. Grid scale batteries are being installed at factories, farms, ports... Rystad says: "Battery storage is no longer just enabling renewables — it is actively replacing gas generation." www.rystadenergy.com/insights/ene...

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Dave O Mitchell @daveomitchell.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Looking to throw down for Cuba against this economic warfare? Here are a couple of initiatives: Send solar panels to Cuban hospitals - www.letcubalive.info/donate Support the Nuestra America flotilla, bringing critical humanitarian aid - nuestraamericaflotilla.org #solarpunk #Cuba

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Well Here's the Thing: You Can't Blockade the Sun

The Cuba oil blockade is a climate story. And nobody's telling it like one.

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Dave O Mitchell @daveomitchell.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

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Well Here's the Thing: You Can't Blockade the Sun

The Cuba oil blockade is a climate story. And nobody's telling it like one.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I regret to inform you that “1979” by Smashing Pumpkins was released in 1996, which is now 30 years ago. Meaning a similar song released in 2026 would be called “2009”

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A 60% jump in EU LNG imports from the U.S. in 2025 managed to drive up greenhouse gas emissions on both sides of the Atlantic - in the EU from the burning of the gas, and in the U.S. by prompting a shift to coal-fired generation as prices rose.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"There's also this everyday feeling of solidarity, because everyone is walking around with whistles. If you hear a whistle, suddenly people start swarming toward you. I’ve never felt so backed up. It feels like we’re all on a giant team together as a city. It’s incredible."

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Useless, weak, pathetic centrist Democrats: People are persuadable. Public opinion can shift. In one week, a small majority has now turned against ICE. Imagine if you actually messaged accordingly, led by example, and stood up for justice? That number would shoot to 60% by the end of next week.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/01/2026

REMINDER: RECORD EVERYTHING ICE DOES. RECORD EVERYTHING ANY GOVERNMENT ENFORCEMENT AGENCY DOES. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD. RECORD.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 25/01/2026

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

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